Little Town Living
From the time we were teenagers we dreamed of living in the big, bustling and cultured city of London and we finally made that dream come true. The thing is dreams aren’t static, they need to evolve. Our environments change, life changes, and we grow and change. So our decades long dream needed to grow-up and sync with who we had now become and how we now wanted to live.
Much to our own surprise we ended up moving out of the ‘Big Smoke’ (i.e. London) and into the English countryside. We are truly little town residents with city ties (known here as ‘down from Londoners’). We left the galleries and glamour for history, pastures full of sheep and cows, and muddy boots!
Our little county town has community, a vibe, lots and lots of history and many traditions that stand the tests of time.
People are different here, they aren’t always walking with a mobile to their ear. They will stop to chat, neighbours wave, the ‘veg boys’ call us ‘darling’ and you are known when you stop for tea and cake or a veggie burger!
Our views are now of fields, sheep, swans, and cattle rather than skyscrapers and smog. (And yes of course our Castle!) Canada geese (they found us!) honk flying over, the garden is alive with birdsong, and the night skies are so dark (the street lights go out at midnight, we couldn’t believe it either at first!) they sparkle with stars and planets. Our little town literally straddles the Greenwich Meridian dividing eastern and western hemispheres! (Personally I find that powerfully interesting but then I am an HSP nerd).
Little town living has given us the courage (and dare we say desire) to ‘go’ even smaller at some point but that’s the future and who ever knows what the future holds. All we know is we will be ready to embrace the next adventure that comes our way.
For now, we’ll enjoy the sights, sounds and pace of where we are. There is always something to celebrate like Bonfire Night which is mad, loud, and what this town does best!
But please, don’t just take our word for it, watch this 5 minutes of Lewes madness!!!!!
(P.S. it is hours long to watch in person and, oh yes, it gets freaking hot!)
Lewes Bonfire 2019
Until the next issue, cheers from these ‘little town Brits’!
